"exclude" in yum.conf and yumex.conf

[Mickey]

FC13-i686

I do not want to update the Fedora kernel, kernel-headers.
  I put in  yum.conf and yumex.conf , exclude=kernel and 
exclude=kernel-headers but yumex still tries  to update the kernel. Why ?

I do not have any kmods or kernel-devel installed

yumex]
autorefresh = 1
recentdays = 14
proxy =
exclude = kernel
exclude = kernel-headers
debug = 0
color_install = darkgreen
color_update = red
color_normal = black
color_obsolete = blue
plugins = 1
yumdebuglevel = 2

yum.conf

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum/$basearch/$releasever
keepcache=0
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
exactarch=1
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=1
plugins=1
installonly_limit=3
color=never
exclude=kernel
exclude=kernel-headers
#  This is the default, if you make this bigger yum won't see if the 
metadata
# is newer on the remote and so you'll "gain" the bandwidth of not having to
# download the new metadata and "pay" for it by yum not having correct
# information.
#  It is esp. important, to have correct metadata, for distributions like
# Fedora which don't keep old packages around. If you don't like this 
checking
# interupting your command line usage, it's much better to have something
# manually check the metadata once an hour (yum-updatesd will do this).
# metadata_expire=90m

# PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
# in /etc/yum.repos.d

[Sam Varshavchik]

Jim Tate writes:
> FC13-i686
>
> I do not want to update the Fedora kernel, kernel-headers.
>   I put in  yum.conf and yumex.conf , exclude=kernel and 
> exclude=kernel-headers but yumex still tries  to update the kernel. Why ?
>
> I do not have any kmods or kernel-devel installed

Only one "exclude" setting. As per yum.conf man page, multiple entries in 
a single exclude setting, space separated.

Also, look closely. Do you have "kernel" or "kernel-PAE" installed?

[Mickey]

On 07/21/2010 06:20 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Jim Tate writes:
> > FC13-i686
> >
> > I do not want to update the Fedora kernel, kernel-headers.
> >   I put in  yum.conf and yumex.conf , exclude=kernel and 
> > exclude=kernel-headers but yumex still tries  to update the kernel. 
> > Why ?
> >
> > I do not have any kmods or kernel-devel installed
>
> Only one "exclude" setting. As per yum.conf man page, multiple entries 
> in a single exclude setting, space separated.
>
> Also, look closely. Do you have "kernel" or "kernel-PAE" installed?

kernel, only is installed.

So I guess if I take out the exclude=kernel-headers, that should do the 
trick.

Thanks for the responds.

[Mickey]

On 07/21/2010 06:30 PM, Jim Tate wrote:
> On 07/21/2010 06:20 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > Jim Tate writes:
> > > FC13-i686
> > >
> > > I do not want to update the Fedora kernel, kernel-headers.
> > >   I put in  yum.conf and yumex.conf , exclude=kernel and 
> > > exclude=kernel-headers but yumex still tries  to update the kernel. 
> > > Why ?
> > >
> > > I do not have any kmods or kernel-devel installed
> >
> > Only one "exclude" setting. As per yum.conf man page, multiple 
> > entries in a single exclude setting, space separated.
> >
> > Also, look closely. Do you have "kernel" or "kernel-PAE" installed?
>
> kernel, only is installed.
>
> So I guess if I take out the exclude=kernel-headers, that should do 
> the trick.
>
> Thanks for the responds.

Well I took the exclude=kernel-headers out of yum.conf and yumex.conf 
and now yumex wants to update the kernel-headers and not the kernel.

So if yumex shows a hundred updates I will have to check each individual 
package and not check kernel-headers, not being able to just click on 
'Select All"

If I did "Select All" then I couldn't uncheck kernel-headers because 
yumex would still try to update kernel-headers, once it has been 
checked, and you know what would happen then, the kernel is a dependency 
of kernel-headers and it would be updated.

This is no win situation.

[Kevin Cummings]

On 07/21/2010 06:59 PM, Jim Tate wrote:
> Well I took the exclude=kernel-headers out of yum.conf and yumex.conf 
> and now yumex wants to update the kernel-headers and not the kernel.

What happens it you put in:

exclude=kernel,kernel-headers

[Suvayu Ali]

On 21 July 2010 15:59, Jim Tate  wrote:
> On 07/21/2010 06:30 PM, Jim Tate wrote:
> > On 07/21/2010 06:20 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > > Only one "exclude" setting. As per yum.conf man page, multiple
> > > entries in a single exclude setting, space separated.
> Well I took the exclude=kernel-headers out of yum.conf and yumex.conf
> and now yumex wants to update the kernel-headers and not the kernel.

Read a little carefully to what Sam wrote. You can specify more than
one packages but on the same line separated with spaces. Read "man
yum.conf" and search for 'exclude' for more details.

[Clint Dilks]

On 22/07/10 10:59, Jim Tate wrote:
> On 07/21/2010 06:30 PM, Jim Tate wrote:
> > On 07/21/2010 06:20 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > > Jim Tate writes:
> > > > FC13-i686
> > > >
> > > > I do not want to update the Fedora kernel, kernel-headers.
> > > >    I put in  yum.conf and yumex.conf , exclude=kernel and
> > > > exclude=kernel-headers but yumex still tries  to update the kernel.
> > > > Why ?
> > > >
> > > > I do not have any kmods or kernel-devel installed
> > >
> > > Only one "exclude" setting. As per yum.conf man page, multiple
> > > entries in a single exclude setting, space separated.
> > >
> > > Also, look closely. Do you have "kernel" or "kernel-PAE" installed?
> >
> > kernel, only is installed.
> >
> > So I guess if I take out the exclude=kernel-headers, that should do
> > the trick.
> >
> > Thanks for the responds.
>
> Well I took the exclude=kernel-headers out of yum.conf and yumex.conf
> and now yumex wants to update the kernel-headers and not the kernel.
>
> So if yumex shows a hundred updates I will have to check each individual
> package and not check kernel-headers, not being able to just click on
> 'Select All"
>
> If I did "Select All" then I couldn't uncheck kernel-headers because
> yumex would still try to update kernel-headers, once it has been
> checked, and you know what would happen then, the kernel is a dependency
> of kernel-headers and it would be updated.
>
> This is no win situation.

Hi

You exclude line can have multiple items just on one line seperated by 
spaces

exclude=kernel kernel-headers myboguspackage

[Fred Smith]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:06:54AM +1200, Clint Dilks wrote:
> On 22/07/10 10:59, Jim Tate wrote:
> > On 07/21/2010 06:30 PM, Jim Tate wrote:
> > > On 07/21/2010 06:20 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > > > Jim Tate writes:
> > > > > FC13-i686
> > > > >
> > > > > I do not want to update the Fedora kernel, kernel-headers.
> > > > >    I put in  yum.conf and yumex.conf , exclude=kernel and
> > > > > exclude=kernel-headers but yumex still tries  to update the kernel.
> > > > > Why ?
> > > > >
> > > > > I do not have any kmods or kernel-devel installed
> > > >
> > > > Only one "exclude" setting. As per yum.conf man page, multiple
> > > > entries in a single exclude setting, space separated.
> > > >
> > > > Also, look closely. Do you have "kernel" or "kernel-PAE" installed?
> > >
> > > kernel, only is installed.
> > >
> > > So I guess if I take out the exclude=kernel-headers, that should do
> > > the trick.
> > >
> > > Thanks for the responds.
> >
> > Well I took the exclude=kernel-headers out of yum.conf and yumex.conf
> > and now yumex wants to update the kernel-headers and not the kernel.
> >
> > So if yumex shows a hundred updates I will have to check each individual
> > package and not check kernel-headers, not being able to just click on
> > 'Select All"
> >
> > If I did "Select All" then I couldn't uncheck kernel-headers because
> > yumex would still try to update kernel-headers, once it has been
> > checked, and you know what would happen then, the kernel is a dependency
> > of kernel-headers and it would be updated.
> >
> > This is no win situation.
>
> Hi
>
> You exclude line can have multiple items just on one line seperated by 
> spaces
>
> exclude=kernel kernel-headers myboguspackage

you should be able to do: exclude=kernel*

I've done that in the past, and at the moment mine contains
    exclude=OpenOffice* openoffice* ooobasis*
since I've installed the one from OpenOffice.org